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Sula–Buru languages

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Geographic distribution
  
Indonesia

Glottolog
  
buru1321

Linguistic classification
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP (Central–Eastern) Central Maluku Sula–Buru

The Sula–Buru languages are a group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on the Buru and Sula Islands in the eastern Moluccas. Buru itself has almost forty thousand speakers, and Sula about twenty thousand.

Classification

The languages are:

  • Buru: Buru, Lisela, Palumata (extinct), Moksela (extinct)
  • Sula: Sula, Mangole
  • Taliabo (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo)

    • Another extinct Buru language may be Hukumina, but it may not have been indigenous to the island, but a Buton language.

    References

    Sula–Buru languages Wikipedia
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